Cinema 4D Tutorial – Create an Orange Peel Sphere Thing

Cinema 4D Tutorial – Create an Orange Peel Sphere Thing

In this quick tutorial we will take a look at how to create a sliced orange peel style sphere thing. I have no idea as to what you would actually call this but either way this is a pretty useful technique. all made possible using the tracer object. There are a ton of other uses for this so hopefully you will actually find this one quite useful! Perhaps you have another method to achieve the same result? Let me know.

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or, you can project a helix primitive onto a sphere and use resulting spline to extrude a circle along it. then use boolean (sphereextusion) intersecting part of spehere’s surface will be a nice spiral “peel”. Also, this way you can use scale function for the profile shape in spiral sweep, so that you get nice and rounded shape for the endings 🙂

Hey man, great work there.
Well, am new to C4D and I rebuilt the “thing” and added a text
to make it look cooler.. check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dE4TUzAITI
So, I thought of making it do the spinning, drop down text and crack… of sort.
Basically, I need you to give so more ideas and tips on the animation part.